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fairly be assumed that the extra deaths, 82, were 

 due to plague : and, indeed, 64 plague-deaths were 

 either acknowledged by the relatives, or certified by 

 the burial-books of the community. Of these 82 

 deaths, 3 occnrred among the inoculated or reinocu- 

 lated, and 77 among the uninoculated. 



The Commissioners find fault with these figures : 

 " Nevertheless, quite apart from the statistics put 

 before us, which we think inaccurate, we do not 

 doubt that inoculations had a good effect, especially 

 as much weight must be allowed to the opinion of a 

 community so intelligent as that of the Khojas." 



8. Hubli. 



This, the greatest and most amazing of all 

 instances of preventive plague-work, was done in a 

 town of 50,000 persons. The following report, by 

 Surgeon-Captain Leumann, was forwarded to the 

 Plague Commissioners by Mr E. K. Cappel, 

 Collector of Dharwar, with this comment : — 



" The town of Hubli — a mercantile town of over 

 50,000 inhabitants — was attacked by plague in an 

 epidemic form at the commencement of the monsoon 

 rains. The average rainfall between April and 

 October amounts to more than 28 inches. Under 

 these circumstances, although a large and weather- 

 proof health camp had been prepared for emer- 

 gencies, complete evacuation of the infected town- 

 site was impossible ; and the attempt to effect it 

 would have led to the severest hardships and to the 

 immediate spread of the disease into surrounding 

 villages and districts. It was for this reason that 



